Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
In this narrated video essay, we present the absolute cheesiest tale about Charlemagne (r. 768-814) that was recorded by the medieval monk and historian,...
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"The sectarians deafen one another with their noise and clamor, keep anxiety away with their screeching."
From Soren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling...
(Relief of the Charites Aglaea, Thalia and Euphrosyne, from the island Paros, ca. 570–560 BC, via Creative Commons)
In The Iliad, Hephaestus, the smith...
This heavily-wooded landscape painting, by the French artist Jean-Victor Bertin (c. 1767-1842), alludes to the sad myth of Apollo and Daphne. In the dimly...
Lao Tzu (6th and 5th Century BCE Daoist theologian and philosopher)
"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak
than water. Yet for attacking...
